World Political Challenges Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 3
This volume focuses on several theoretical topics in world politics and analyzes prominent cases of global conflicts and their potential peaceful resolution. It covers issues such as the multiplication of nation states in the era of globalizatio
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World Political Challenges Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 3
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Egbert Jahn
World Political Challenges Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 3
Egbert Jahn Frankfurt/Main Germany
Translator: Anna Gu¨ttel-Bellert, Berlin, Germany Translation from a revised and extended version of German language edition: “Politische Streitfragen, Band 4: Weltpolitische Herausforderungen” by Egbert Jahn # Gabler Verlag / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gmbh 2015 Gabler is a part of Springer Science+Business Media All rights reserved
ISBN 978-3-662-47911-7 ISBN 978-3-662-47912-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-47912-4
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Preface
“World Political Challenges” is the third volume in the series “Political Issues Under Debate”. It combines contributions on concepts for a global political order as well as on several controversial global political conflicts. Over the past 200 years and more, the global state system has been transformed from dynastic empires and small states into a system of real and theoretical, or perceived, nation states. Since the Congress of Berlin in 1878, the number of states has steadily increased, apart from an interruption during the neo-imperial expansion phase from 1922 to 1945, and is likely to continue to do so in the twenty-first century. Not every state is a nation state, i.e. a state whose citizens wish to live together within it, in so doing forming a nation (by will). In the spring of 2014, the fragility of some nominal nation states has again been demonstrated in Ukraine. The studies included in this volume attempt to develop a universally applicable, historically well-founded definition of “nati
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